Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.

This canyon is comprised of gorgeous waters and magnificent basalt columns.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.